The best writing and and the biggest stories of 2019 from the Business Post

Denis O’Brien is back in court, residents continue to fight the Council on halting site and a row surfaces in government over rent control proposals

Greater Dublin Area draft Transport Strategy published

The businessman claims there is a conspiracy against him and wants to search company’s offices

Vacancy rate is below 10 per cent for first time since 2000

ECB President Mario Draghi convenes his 25-member governing council in Malta this week to set monetary policy as global market volatility slows trade

Media magnate joins the board of the weight loss company and will develop future products

China’s economy expanded quicker than economists forecast in the third quarter as the services sector propped up the world’s second-largest economy

Ireland’s public finances are improving at a very fast pace which is credit positive, ratings agency Moody’s has said

Newry-based financial software company First Derivatives said that trading in the first half of its financial year was strong with both earnings and revenue significantly ahead of the previous year

As a €900,000 award is overturned, questions must be asked about how libel damages are decided upon

ICANN will shortly oversee internet’s move out of US state control

US pharmaceutical firm Regeneron plans to expand its workforce in Limerick by a further 200 people over the next two years

Revenue gain at 4.6 per cent exceeds analysts predictions

The health services are running just to stand still and the budget offered nothing to avert a situation which is likely only to get worse

Deutsche Bank is undertaking the biggest management shakeup in more than a decade

Will UTV Ireland’s home-grown programming survive a takeover by ITV? Bill Kinlay, chief executive of media buying agency Mindshare, thinks not

What’s happening in the business world this week.

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